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Performance Failure or Performance Appraisal Failure – Part II

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Continuing the narrative in the same methodology as used in Performance Failure or Performance Appraisal Failure – Part I, namely that “…the result of research into recent data, blog comments and personal interviews and observations show a process that is crying out for change. One ground rule that is self imposed in writing this series is that each problem area must be connected to a proposal to counter that problem.” The five core issues addressed… Read More »Performance Failure or Performance Appraisal Failure – Part II

Performance Failure or Performance Appraisal Failure – Part I

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I once told a fellow HR colleague that the only way anyone could really hurt me with an employee performance appraisal would be if they rolled it up and jabbed it in my eye. Of course that was back in the day when we actually used paper for such things. Today in most companies the process uses enough electrons to render an employee sterile… or at least slightly radioactive. If you are reading into my… Read More »Performance Failure or Performance Appraisal Failure – Part I

Working in HR Does Not Make You a Leader

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Human Resources as a profession has come a long way from the days that carved out a “personnel” function to do the grunt work for managers that were too often insensitive to the people needs of a company. In a mad search for improved productivity, business leaders and academics arrived at similar conclusions that workers are not slaves to their masters’ every whim, but are indeed a valuable “resource” along with other components of success.… Read More »Working in HR Does Not Make You a Leader

Tech Wars: Difficulties Beyond Our Control

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We interrupt this blog due to technical difficulties beyond our control… or anybody’s control for that matter. If your internet provider is Comcast you could not see my website yesterday. I’m not sure exactly when this problem began because most Mondays are a blur of activity for me. It could have actually started over the weekend. I noticed that there was some kind of glitch mid-morning when I was trying to upload a new blog… Read More »Tech Wars: Difficulties Beyond Our Control

Taming the Time-Suck – RSS Readers and More

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We have come a long way. If you begged me for it, I would still not go into detail about my knowledge of the old Usenet News Groups and the text-based non-graphical ways to read them. It is too painful. Does anyone still remember that certain groups could be used to post job ads or to source for candidates? It is interesting to know that today’s technology has moved light-years ahead of its beginning, but… Read More »Taming the Time-Suck – RSS Readers and More